COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be captured/caught on video (= recorded on video )
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The crime was captured on video.
be caught on camera (= be photographed, especially doing something wrong )
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The boys were caught on camera leaving the station.
be caught with your hands/fingers in the till (= to be caught stealing from your employer )
be stuck/caught/held up in traffic
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Sorry I’m late – I was stuck in traffic.
caught a glimpse
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They caught a glimpse of a dark green car.
caught in the crossfire
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During a divorce, kids often get caught in the crossfire .
caught in the crossfire
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Doctors who tried to help the wounded were caught in the crossfire .
caught speeding
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I got caught speeding on the A40 yesterday.
get caught in the rain (= be outside when it starts raining )
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Did you get caught in the rain?
get sth caught/stuck etc
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She got her foot caught in the wire.
risk being seen/caught/arrested etc
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Workers who broke the strike risked being attacked when they left the factory.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I wouldn't be seen/caught dead
be (caught) in a cleft stick
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Now the local authorities are caught in a cleft stick, hostages to their own political process.
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So the developing countries are caught in a cleft stick.
be (caught/locked/stuck) in a time warp
be caught napping
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Nowadays, no company can afford to be caught napping by a technological development.
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Stock traders who ignore these signs are in danger of being caught napping when a recession hits.
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I was reminding the golfing spirits that I could not be caught napping .
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Quakers were caught napping again two minutes later.
be taken short/be caught short
be/get caught in/without etc sth
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Don't expect to be caught in the rush.
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He is caught in a storm and crashes.
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He was caught in the end, trying to bury one of the bodies in the cemetery, in a fresh grave.
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She was caught in the seducing current, and she could not break free.
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The actual death toll is much greater because thousands more turtles are caught in fishing nets and suffocate.
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The Tokyo government is caught in a dilemma, according to Hazelwood.
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They are caught in this place of denial and unrealized emotion and desire.
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Worse, he was caught in the cross fire of local conflicts.
be/get caught up in sth
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We get caught up in the commercial aspects of Christmas.
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And that headdress would get caught up in the overhead wires, you silly boy.
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I am painfully aware of how we get caught up in our times and become contaminated by our own hypocrisy.
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I thought at one time it might be caught up in the Christmas post.
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Kenetech got caught up in that.
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Landowners who get caught up in this bureaucratic runaround receive no compensation for their economic loss as a result of wetland determination.
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Rather than just evolving in a gradual, uniform manner, the earth may actually be caught up in a repeating cycle.
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Some of these girls get caught up in this freedom idea.
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When this is augmented by oddly tangential keyboard sounds it's an enjoyable little maelstrom to be caught up in.
like a rabbit/deer caught in headlights